2024

January 11: The parents of the 43 disappeared students from Ayotzinapa leave the negotiating table with the government after statements by President López Obrador, who expressed distrust of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI). They accuse the government of hiding the truth and criminalizing the organizations that support them.

January 24: 8 members of the National Secretariat of Defense (Sedena), accused in the Ayotzinapa case, are released, after a federal judge revoked the preventive detention in which they were held.

January 28: More than three years after her arrest, Kenia Hernández, a human rights defender imprisoned for defending the right to demonstrate, is transferred from CEFERESO 16 in Morelos, a maximum-security prison, to the CERESO in Ecatepec, State of Mexico.

February 13: Searcher Noé Sandoval Adame, a member of the Collective of Relatives in Search of María Herrera, is shot to death in Zumpango. He was looking for his son Kevin Sandoval Mesa, 16, who disappeared on November 17, 2023.

February 20: President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) recognizes that the Ayotzinapa case is “a pending issue that it would hurt me not to resolve. When they say that it was a matter of state, it was, but not because they were ordered to disappear but because the state covered it up.”

February 26: The parents of the 43 Ayotzinapa students who have disappeared since 2014 set up a sit-in in Mexico City’s Zócalo to demand that the federal government provide results in the investigations into the case.

March 7: Yanqui Kothan Gómez Peralta, 23, originally from Tixtla and a student at the Ayotzinapa Normal School, dies and another is injured when they were detained at a checkpoint. According to official reports, the police opened fire when the students did not stop when passing through the checkpoint. Subsequently, the policeman who allegedly shot and killed the student is arrested.

April 3: The Congress of Guerrero appoints Colonel Zipacná Jesús Torres Ojeda as the new head of the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) for a period of six years.

April 7: A month after the murder of Yanqui Kothan Gómez Peralta, family members, human rights defenders, the Federation of Socialist Peasant Students of Mexico (FECSM) and students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Normal School of Ayotzinapa, located in Tixtla, hold a rally to demand progress in the investigation of the case as well as punishment of the material and intellectual authors of the events.

May 7: The Mechanism for Truth and Historical Clarification denounces that Sedena has not complied with the deadlines established by the National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (INAI) to deliver information on the “death flights”, carried out between 1973 and 1981 during the Dirty War.

May 13: A bus carrying a student bus from the Ayotzinapa Rural Normal School is shot at between the towns of Palomares and Donají, on the trans-isthmian highway in Oaxaca.

May 14: President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) affirms that his government will challenge the decision of the Judiciary that a few days earlier issued conditional release to eight military personnel investigated for the Ayotzinapa case.

May 20: The Tlachinollan Mountain Human Rights Center denounces that violence in Guerrero and the corruption of party leaders are destroying the state’s political system in the framework of the 2024 electoral process in which at least 80 victims of political violence have been registered, including several murders of candidates for municipal office.

May 24: Arquímedes Díaz Justo, coordinator of the coalition “Fuerza y Corazón por México”, made up of the PRI, PAN and PRD, dies of multiple gunshots in the municipality of Marquelia in the Costa Chica region.

May 29: The Tlachinollan Human Rights Center and other organizations denounce the lack of information on the investigation of the case of Javier Modesto, a three-year-old Mixtec boy in Guanajuato, whose death reflects the conditions of contemporary slavery in the agricultural day laborer population, affected by labor exploitation and institutional lack of protection.

May 30: The Zeferino Ladrillero Human Rights Center denounces that the Amuzga human rights defender, Kenia Inés Hernández Montalván, “was strongly assaulted by an inmate” in the Ecatepec prison in the State of Mexico.

July 18: the Emiliano Zapata Indigenous and Popular Council of Guerrero (CIPOG-EZ) reports that two of its members were shot dead in the municipality of Chilapa on the same day. The victims were Maria de Jesus Pasado, 43 years old, originally from the community of Alcozacan, and her godson Alberto Berales, 25 years old, a promoter of CIPOG-EZ, originally from the community of Buenavista, both belonging to the municipality of Chilapa de Alvarez.

August 5: Three years after the forced disappearance of defender Vicente Suástegui Muñoz, the relatives of the member of the Council of Ejidos and Communities opposed to the La Parota hydroelectric project (CECOP) demand again that he be presented alive in Acapulco.

August 16: the Mechanism for Truth and Historical Clarification (MEH) presented its final report on the Dirty Warm that details 8,594 people who suffered serious human rights violations, including extrajudicial executions, missing persons and massacres. It claims that the National Intelligence Center and the Secretariat of National Defense hindered the work of the investigators, and recommends that the president offer a public apology and recognize the responsibility of the State in these acts of violence.

September 26: At least 10,000 people march in Mexico City 10 years after the disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa.

October 6: just six days after taking office as mayor of Chilpancingo, Alejandro Arcos Catalan is murdered and decapitated

November 18: Germán Reyes Reyes, former head of the Ministry of Public Security of Chilpancingo, is linked to the process for the murder of Mayor Alejandro Arcos Catalán, which occurred on October 6. Reyes, accused of being part of the criminal group Los Ardillos, was arrested after his involvement in the crime and his link to violence in Guerrero.

November 20: 5 years after the discovery of the body of defender Arnulfo Cerón Soriano in Tlapa, Guerrero, the Popular Front of the Mountain and other groups organize an event to honor his memory and demand justice.

November 25: On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, organizations such as Tlachinollan denounce high rates of femicide and gender-based violence in Guerrero, pointing to impunity and the lack of action by the authorities. From January to October 2024, Guerrero registered 20 femicides and more than 1,300 complaints of violence against women.